DATA COLLECTION FOR RESEARCH : WHAT PHILOSOPHY STUDENTS MUST KNOW Dr Chinwe Veronica Anunobi Digital Librarian Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka

PREAMBLE Information Sourcing :Who ? What Data Collection? Information Sourcing :Who ? Information Sourcing : Where & How? 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

SCHEMA Data Collection Literature Search Information Sourcing How Think Understand Plan Move Search Where Referral /Resource Person Institutional Library Personal Library Who ? Information Literate 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

Requires Information Literate person WHO? Requires Information Literate person ABILITY TO KNOW When Information is needed Where to find it How to evaluate it How to use it Communicate it in ethical manner 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

INFORMATION LITERATE PERSON Should be Understand , adapt , evaluate as well as use current and emerging information tool Tool Literate Understand type , characteristics , format , location and access methods of information Resources Information Resource Literate Understand & use tools relevant to today’s research & scholarly works Research Literate Present , format and publish research output in any format Publishing Literate Adapt , understand , evaluate and continuously use emerging innovation in information world Emerging Technology Literate Critically evaluate information sources and information taking note of strength, weakness and their prospects Critical Thinking Literate 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

WHERE OF INFORMATION SOURCING? / Information Sources Referral/Resource Person Personal Library Institutional Library Format: :Print & Electronic 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

LIBRARY FORMATS Electronic Print Bibliographies & References from other sources Library catalogue Indexes & Abstracts Consult a Librarian Electronic Directory Web search : -Search engines, -Deep Web 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

ELECTRONIC Directory Not very useful now though was used to get other sites . E.g Yahoo Directory Web Search Search Engines Meta Search Engines Deep Web 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

WEB SEARCH Search Engines Google ( Google scholar ,images, Maps, News, Translate, Books etc MSN Yahoo Ask : www.ask.com , ETC Meta Search : Searches within Search engines Result Deep Web : Library websites, Databases, Repositories, Catalogues 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

GOOGLE SEARCH 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

YAHOO SEARCH ENGINE 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

DEEP WEB Deep Web 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi Library Websites Repositories Databases/Portals Library Websites 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

SUBSCRIBED DATABASES / PORTALS   These are the resources the Digital Library has subscribed to, and which is expected help you carry out your research effectively. Please use them. If you encounter any problem using them, do let us know through our e-mail: unizikdiglib@yahoo.com, or personal contact. 1. Online Access to Research in the Environment: (OARE). Containing peer reviewed journals in Sciences, Engineering, Education, Social Sciences, Law and Arts broadly defined. To access full text of these journals, log in at http://www.oaresciences.org/en/ with this user ID :NIE628 and password : 26379 2. Access to Research Initiative: HINARI. Provides full access to over 7385 major journals in biomedical and related several sources. From HINAR,I you will have access to oxford textbook of Medicine, 5th Edition. You may login at http://www.who.int/hinari/en/ with this userID: NIE122 and password: 39FN99 3. Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture. (AGORA). Agora provides online access to peer reviewed research publications mainly in Agriculture, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Entomology, Food Sciences, Forestry and Ecology/Environment. You may access full text publications by logging in at http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/ with this userID: ag-nga149 and password: rdewasujo 4. EBSCO Host Resources. This is a database of complete resources on numerous walks of life. The Academic Source Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions. It offers Multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text Periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Other definitive online resources include: Business Source Complete, Computers & Applied Sciences Complete, Education Research Complete, Health Source - Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Legal Collection, etc. You may login at http://www.nigerianvirtuallibrary.com/ with this userID ns074918 and this password= password 5. PROTA. PROTA contains publications on over 7,000 useful plants of Tropical Africa and this can be accessed on: http://database.prota.org/search.htm 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

SUBSCRIBED DATABASES / PORTALS 6. WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY. The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free -of - charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. Access these materials on http://www.wdl.org/en/ 7. BIOLINE INTERNATIONAL.. BIOLINE INTERNATIONAL provides open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries. These journals contain timely research on public health, international development, tropical medicine, food and nutritional security and biodiversity resourcesAccess full texts at http://www.bioline.org/ 8. BIBLIOMANANIA. BIBLIOMANANIA has thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays. This is a rich source for Literature and History. Access complete documents at http://www.bibliomania.com/ 9. BRITISH LIBRARY OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (BLDS). BRITISH LIBRARY OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (BLDS) provides Research collection on economic and social change in developing countries and can be accessed at http://www.blds.ids.ac.uk/ 10. DATABASE OF AFRICAN THESES AND DISSERTATIONS (DATAD). This a programme to improve management and access to African scholarly work. To access this database login at / http://www.aau.org/datad database with Username: unizikdiglib and Password: admin001 11. DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL (DOAJ). DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS OURNAL (DOAJ) is an online repository containing free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly Journals in Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts and Architecture, Agriculture and Food Sciences, Technology and Engineering. You can access for free full Text articles online at http://www.doaj.org/ J 12. JSTOR. Contains peer reviewed multidisciplinary research publications including sources like Arts and Sciences I-VII, Life Sciences, 19th Century British Pamphlets and Business III. You can only become and authorized user by proceeding to the provided link below; http://www.jstor.org/token/93MnrEsmATfjuMUDi4jc/unizik.edu.ng. You will be directed to the login/register for MyJSTOR page. Click on the “Register” link to go to the MyJSTOR Registration page. Complete the required fields to register a unique username and password. A unique email address is required, but the email address may be of any type (Gmail, Yahoomail, Hotmail, an institution-issued account, etc.) -Click “Submit” to register. You will be redirected to the new JSTOR main page, where you may use JSTOR via this account from any location. 13. International Network for Availability of Scientific Publications: (INASP). This site provides access and links to peer reviewed publications in the following fields:- Agriculture , Biology & Life Science ,Chemistry ,Earth Sciences , Education ,Engineering & Technology ,Environment ,Humanities , Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs) ,Library and Information Science, Mathematics & Statistics , Medicine & Health Sciences , Physics, Science General and Social Sciences. www.inasp.org/subject-specific 14. The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL). This is an offline Database for Agriculture and Agricultural related disciplines such as Veterinary Medicine, Biotechnology, Applied Microbiology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Entomology, Pest Control, Ecology, etc. TEEAL is robust and can be accessed in the Digital library through the assistance from our help desk. No link is required as Internet is not involved. 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

LIBRARY WEBSITES Any library of your choice depending on what you are looking for : World Digital Library, HathiTrust Digital library OPAC Online and Offline Digital Libraries 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

FESTUS AGHAGBO NWAKO LIBRARY 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

HATHITRUST DIGITAL LIBRARY 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

THE SUMMER SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY AT MT. DESERT, BY J. A. MITCHELL. 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

DATABASES & PORTALS Collection of interrelated resources: JSTOR; Online Access to Research in the Environment(OARE); Bibliomania; Directory of Open Access Journals(DOAJ); Database of African Theses and Dissertations(DATAD); African Journal Online(AJOL); International Network for Availability of Scientific Publication (INASP); 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

JSTOR JSTOR: Online Portal 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

ONLINE ACCESS TO RESEARCH IN THE ENVIRONMENT(OARE) 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS(DOAJ) 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

BIBLIOMANIA: You must register free 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

AFRICAN JOURNAL ONLINE 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AVAILABILITY OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS (INASP) 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

The Directory of Open Access Repositories - OpenDOAR Search for Repositories Search Repository contents List of Repositories 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORY 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

SEARCH DOAR CONTENTS:PHILOSOPHY 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

ADVANCE SEARCH FOR REPOSITORIES 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

SEARCH PARTICULAR REPOSITORY CONTENT: ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC SEARCH OF CONSCIOUSNESS 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

Bruce ManganRepresentation, Rightness and The Fringe Sample Resource: Mangan Bruce B. Representation, Rightness, and the Fringe Phenomenology Philosophy Article 09-07-11 Bruce ManganRepresentation, Rightness and The Fringe One of Awret’s epigraphs is by the great Japanese poet Issa; it reminds me of another of Issa’s haiku which I will use here as my ownepigraph: The children imitating the cormorants Are more wonderful Than the real cormorants… 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

DOAR: LIST OF REPOSITORIES 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

HOW? The Who and where have strengthen you Now the How What makes you a philosopher Think deeply about the research! Understand the concepts! Plan on how to carry out the search ( May involve schema)! Move to the where of data ( Resource person, personal library or Institutional Library )! Begin the search always consulting a librarian 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

There is always plenty but not all are relevant & qualitative ; BENCHMARK Be wise !!! There is always plenty but not all are relevant & qualitative ; General search may or may not yeild the best ; Deep Search is good; Always evaluate based on : author, publisher/ source and even the age . 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME & GOD BLESS 11/8/2018 Dr Chinwe Anunobi